Realistic Renders...NOT!! 11 "Hello Rogerbee!"

I have been away with my other hobby, which, in case anyone can't remember is 1/6 figures. They have taken up a LOT of my time and money in recent months.

The other week, my Compaq laptop started dying on me so I went and got a replacement. I decided to do it right this time and I now have an HP Pavilion DV6 with 6gb of RAM, a quad core Intel i5 2ghz processor and a dedicated AMD Radeon 6000 series graphics card. It spits out PP2012 renders in under a minute!

Nothing new to show you yet, but, I have been reading Caisson's superb tutorial on Renderosity and aim to try out what he's done really soon.

I couldn't log into the old thread in the forum archive and a search didn't turn a new one up, so, in the interest of continuity, I decided to start a new Realistic Renders...NOT thread here in the new community.

So, start posting your new renders here and I look forward to seeing stuff from you all soon

Part 2 is on this page and Part 1 will be on the next one. It's entitled Lighting and Rendering Demo and has a snarly face as the icon, it's in .pdf format which means you'll need Adobe Reader in order to access it.

He can be a bit vague on the exact translation settings for the lights, but once you work that out they work really well. Once you've got all the lights in the right position, I'd suggest locking the actors and saving the scene so you always have one with all the lights perfectly positioned.

I hope the others find this thread soon, otherwise all the renders will be by me!

CHEERS!

PS (Having to do double returns so they show up as single ones on the forum is getting tedious. Please fix it!)

...just picked up DSON (free is a very good price) but have yet to DL and install.

For the time being here's one from me of my favourite little girl done with Genesis in 4.5 before I broke the directory mapping trying to troubleshoot issues with GenerationX not being able to load Gen3/Gen4 morphs.

Make sure you have the 32 bit DSON installed. The way I got it to work was to create a Daz library in Documents and install the Genesis content into it, then I put that in as a new library in PP2012 and it worked like a charm. Catharina is working on companion files for her Buddy 2.0 to M5 pack so I'll be able to work with him when I get M5.

I want to get Genesis fully and V5 this week though, knowing my luck M5 will be full price again when I get round to him. Whatever, I should have something else to put in here before the week is out.

Oh, about PP2012 throwing hissy fits, it turns out that it was having 'multi threaded bending' turned on that was causing problems. You'll find it in your general preferences, it it is on when you find it, turn it off.

After fine tuning Caisson's set up and a bit of UV swtiching, I've done some more M5. The first couple of textures are Phoenix 1966's Shaw and the last is one of Mec4D's Hunk textures The first morph is the M5 Tough Guy, the second is a mix of all M5 ones and the Heroic body. and the last is standard. The poses are from Syyd Raven's Portrait Studio collection.

I wanted to see what creature you could do with M5 and Genesis if you didn't have the creature morphs. It turns out you can do a fair amount. With a few tweaks of the fantasy and sci-fi dials, the results are below. The texture is Shaw and the eyes are from the Gen 4 eye maps collection.

Very nice render, she reminds me of Daryl Hannah in Splash. I do use parts of Colm's set up in my renders, but only the cove and sphere. If you do a search for Caisson's tutorial in the Renderosity Freestuff is it is so worth downloading. All the info he gives is so simple to follow and seems to deliver quality results every time.

I'll get IDL Studio 2 at some point just to see what it's like, but may yet find myself returning to his set up. Once I find one I really like, I tend to use it as my default set up.

HELLO Rogerbee, Jan, Kyoto Kid, names I recognize and those I do not! It's great so 'see' you all and look at some new and amazing renders! My realistic renders are still of the vampire/creature versions, but there's my reality. Busy trying to figure out the new DSON and reloading figures etc. A bit slow and behind I'm guessing. Anyway enjoying what you and others have been doing and gives me a push to see what I can achieve. Onward!

HELLO Rogerbee, Jan, Kyoto Kid, names I recognize and those I do not! It's great so 'see' you all and look at some new and amazing renders! My realistic renders are still of the vampire/creature versions, but there's my reality. Busy trying to figure out the new DSON and reloading figures etc. A bit slow and behind I'm guessing. Anyway enjoying what you and others have been doing and gives me a push to see what I can achieve. Onward!

Hello Magenta,

Don't worry about DSON, I'm sure many of us got stuck on that. If there's anything you want to know, feel free to ask. After all, the spirit if this thread still remains as it did in previous ones where we talk as much as we render.